Washing and wringing machine



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UNITED STATES PATENT orr es.

- CHARLES A. ZARDELL, OF UTIOA, YOItK, ASSIGNOR TO THE'XARDELL COB-' PORATION, or- UTICA,

NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW"-YORK.

WASHING AND WRINGING MACHINE.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. XARDELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Utica, in the county of Oneida and State of 3 New York, have invented or discovered certain new and useful Improvements in Washin and Wringing Machines, of which the f lowing is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings. This invention relates to washing and wringin machines of that class in which the receptac es or baskets containing the articles to be cleansed are turned "down so as to dip into the cleaning liquid and are slowly oscillated or rotated during the washing operation andare then turned up and rotated rapidly in a horizontal plane during the wringing operation. The present invention has for its object to provide an improved ,0 machine, of the class referred to, which is simple in construction and convenient and efiective in operation.

In the accompanying drawings Fig 1 is a sectional view of a machine embodying the W present invention, with the basket or receptacle in wringin position. Fig. 2 is a sectional view slmi ar to Fig. 1 but with the tank support omitted and with the basket/or receptacle in washing position. Fig. 3 is an W enlarged detail plan View to show the sockets of the washing and wringing driving shafts. Figs. 4 and 5 are enlarged detail. views to show the trunnion mounting for the basket or receptacle shaft.

Referring to the drawings, 12 denotes a tank having a washing and wringing chamber 13 provided with a liquid-tight bottom 14 and beneath which is a chamber 15 containing the driving mechanism for the cen-' W tral operating shaft 16. The bottom 17 of the chamber is attached toasuitable support comprising, as herein shown, a spider consistin of a hub 18 and radial arms 19, thesaid ub 18.being provided with a semiglobular bearing portion 20 resting in a concave socket in the block 21 provided with 1 legs 22. The arms 19 are connected with the legs 22 is springs 23, this construction af fording a stabilizer support which is, how- 0 ever, not herein claimed, being fully shown and described in the ap lication of Charles A. Xardel-l and Morris Jones filed in the U. S. Patent Office November 20, 1923, Serial No. 675,909. This stabilizer support, as set forth in said application, is for the purpose of absorbing vibration and for preventing the machine from moving about when the basket or. receptacle is rotated rapidly for the wringing operation, such vibration being very considerable if the clothes basket or receptacle is unevenly 'balancedfin loading.

A downward extension 12 of the sheet metal.

wall of the-tank provides a housing mainly enclosing the stabilizer support. The shaft 16' is. stepped in a bracket 24 attached to the liquid-tight bottom 14 of the tank 12. Attached to the upper side of said bottom is a hollow standard or pedestal 25 in which the shaft 16 is journalled or has a suitable bearing, said shaft being provided,

below said bottom, with a pulley 26 belted to a pulley 27 on a shaft28 which is to be driven in any suitable mannenpreferably from an electric motor. The shaft 16 has afiixed thereto a worm 29 meshing with a worm wheel 30 on a horizontal shaft 31 journalled in a socket screw 32 on the standard 25 and a socket sleeve 33 mounted in a ca piece 34 of a housing 35. The shaft 31 is providedwith a helical gear wheel 36 meshing with a similar helical gear. wheel 37 on an inclined shaft 38 stepped in a bearing sleeve 39 mounted in the cap 34- and having a bearing near its upper end in the frame or housing 35. A liquid tight joint between the bottom of the hollow standard or pedestal 25 is afiorded by a gasket 25 of leather, rubber or other suitable material secured between the bottom of said standard or pedestal and the bottom 14 of the tank 12.

The clothes basket or receptacle 40 is of reticulated form as is more fully shown and described in my U. S. application Serial No.

651,547, filed July 14, 1923, and is suitably attached, as by a screw 41, to the top of a short shaft 42. The shaft 16 is provided at its upper end with a socket 43 of irregular or polygonal form, herein shown as hein hexagonal, and the lower end of said she t same polygonal form as the socket 43 so that to remove the shaft 42 from the socket 455 the said shaft 44 may be operatively connected either with the shaft 16 or the shaft 38 by being inserted in either the socket 43 or the socket 45. The trunnion sleeve 44 is provided with a pivot 46 fitted to turn loosely in an upward extension 47 of the standard 25. p

From this construction it results that the shaft 42 may be lifted out of either the socket 43 or the socket 45 with which it may be engaged and may be entered into the other socket. Thus during the washing operation the shaft 42 may be engaged with the socket 45 of the slowly rotating shaft 38, and during this washing operation the basket or receptacle will be in the position shown in Fig. 2 with the lower portion of said basket or receptacle dipping into the cleansing fluid in the chamber 13 of the tank 1.2. It will be noted that the basket 40 depends or extends below its central hub portion so that the washing operation instead of re uiring said receptacle or basket to be place in a horizontal position, as in some prior machines of this class, it may be placed in an inclined position to be slowly rotated from the inclined shaft 38. When, however, the washing operation has been completed and the wringing operation is to be performed, the basket will be lifted so as and then, by turning the trunnion sleeve 44 'on its pivot 46, the shaft 42 may be brought into register with the sooket43 and the basket lowered, thus causing the rapidly rotating shaft 16 to be operatively connected to the said shaft 42 for a wringing operation.

From the foregoing it will be understood that the invention provides a washing-and wringing machine which is comparatively simple in construction'and convenient in op eration', and in which the receptacle or basket for holding the articles to be cleansed may be readily shifted from its slowly rotating washing position to its rapidly rotatmg wringing position.

While the invention is herein shown and described in its preferred form, it will be understood that the details of the invention may be varied widel within the province of mechanical skill without departing from the essence of the invention as described in the claims hereunto appended.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. A washin and wringing machine comprising a tan a fixed standard in said tank, a vertical shaft mounted in said standard, an inclined shaft supported by said standard, reducing gearing connecting said inclined shaft to said vertical'shaft, a receptacle, and means whereby said receptacle ma be alternately operatively connected to sai shafts for washing and'wringing operations.

I for was Laeaese 2. A. washing and wringing machine comprising a tank, a fixed standard in said tank, a vertical shaft mounted in said standard, an inclined shaft supported by said standard, reducing gearing connecting said inclined shaft to said vertical shaft, a receptacle, and means whereby said receptacle may be alternately operatively connected to said shafts for washing and wrin ing 0 erations, said means comprising a snort s aft attached to said receptacle and having a non-circular end part, and non-circular socket parts fixed to' and rotating with said shafts. 4

3. A washing and wringing machine comprising a tank, a fixed standard in said tank, a vertical shaft mounted in said standard, an inclined shaft supportedby said standard, reducing gearing connecting said inclined shaft to said vertical shaft, a receptacle, and.means whereby said receptacle may be alternately connected to said shafts for washing and wringing operations, said reducing gearing comprising a worm on said vertical shaft, a horizontal shaft provided with a worm-wheel engaged b said worm, and skew-gears connecting said horizontal and inclined shafts.

4. A washing and wringing machine comprising a tank, a fixed standard in said tank,

a vertical shaft mounted in said standard, an inclined shaft supported by said standard, reducing gearing connecting said inclined shaft to said vertical shaft, 2. receptacle, and Ineanswhereb said receptacle may be alternately operatively connected to said shafts for washing and wringing operations, said means comprising a short shaft attached to said receptacle and having a non-circular'fend part, and noncircular socket parts fixed to and rotating with saidshaft's, and said reducing gearing comprising a worm on said vertical shaft, ahorizontal shaft provided with a worm-wheel engaged bysaid worm, and skew-gears connecting said horizontal and inclined shafts.

5. A washing and wringing machine comprising a tank, a fixed standard in said tank, a vertical shaft mounted in said standard, an inclined shaft supported by said standard,

reducing gearing connecting said inclined shaft to said vertical shaft, a receptacle, means whereby said receptacle may be alternately operatively connected to said shafts ing and wringing operations, a bracket beneath said tank and fixed thereto, a stepped bearing for said vertical shaft in said racket, a pulley on said shaft within said bracket, and means for driving said pulley.

6. A washing and wringing machine comprising a tank, a fixed standard in said tank, a vertical shaft mounted in said standard,

, an inclined shaft supported by said standtiff lid

ard, reducing gearing connecting said in circular end. part, non-circular socket parts elined shaft to said vertical shaft, a recepfixed to and rotating with said shafts, and tacle, means whereby said receptacle 'may be a pivoted trunnion sleeve in which said short 10 alternately operatively connected to said shaft fits and which permits it to be ad- 5 shafts for washing and wringing operations, justed to different posltions.

said means comprising a short shaft at- In testimony whereofI afix my signature. tached to said receptacle and having a non- CHARLES A. XARDELL, 

